Definitions for tokays

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tokays to·kay

Spelling: [toh-key]

IPA: /toʊˈkeɪ/

Tokays is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in tokays (akosty).

Definitions for tokays

noun

1. a gecko, Gekko gecko, of the Malay Archipelago and southeastern Asia: sometimes kept as a pet.
2. an aromatic wine made from Furmint grapes grown in the district surrounding Tokay, a town in NE Hungary.
3. Horticulture. a large, red variety of grape, grown for table use. the vine bearing this fruit, grown in California.
4. a sweet, strong white wine made in California.

Origin of tokays

1745-55; dialectal Malay tokeʔ Javanese təʔkəʔ (spelling tekek)

Examples for tokays

We have, among others, the tokay or ghecko in great numbers.

tokay was regarded at that time as a sort of elixir of life.

It sounded like “tokay, tokay;” almost, indeed, like a human voice.

He also produced several bottles of squang, the tokay of Atvatabar.

This, with some cheese and a salad and a bottle of old tokay, of which I had two glasses, was my supper.

Frau Kirschner had brought a flask of tokay wine with her for Gertrude.

While you drink your tokay, know that it comes through Neisse.

Eleanore handed him the glass of tokay; her eyes glistened with tears.

But the king shook his head, inflamed by the punch, the tokay and the champagne.

But I thought more of that tokay from Tekely's cellar than of anything else.